r/retrotech

Been slowly collecting consoles over the years and finally decided to put them together for a proper post.

From childhood nostalgia to recent pickups — this is what I’ve got so far:

NES (European version)

SNES

Sega Mega Drive (original + clone)

Nintendo 64 (with tray)

PS1 (PS One)

GameCube

Multiple Wii’s (boxed + unboxed)

Wii Mini

Nintendo 2DS & New 3DS XL

Boxed Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition

Boxed Xbox 360 e Blue Call of Duty Edition

Boxed Original Xbox

Some random handhelds like the old Pokémon Tiger device

Honestly, seeing all of these together hits different… grew up playing some of these and discovered others later.

👉 Have more to show but Reddit limits images 😅

👉 Would love to connect with more Indian retro lovers here!

Curious

Which one would you pick first to play today?

And what’s missing from this collection?

Also slowly restoring/testing everything, so any tips are welcome 🙌

u/retrogamersindia

Original owner of a Motorola Razr V3i Dolce & Gabbana Limited Edition (#0470/1000).

Purchased by me in 2006 at the Dolce & Gabbana store in Via Condotti, Rome.

Still has original protective plastics on the phone and accessories. Complete box, manuals, charger, CDs, shopping bag and packaging.

Possibly one of the very few surviving near-NOS examples.

Thought the community here might appreciate it.

We managed to visit 40+ Hard-Offs in 2 weeks during our annual Japan trip earlier this year, which felt completely normal at the time.

I now own an unnecessary number of MD storage cases in completely different styles, and zero consistency. I’m sorry, but there is no system and there will never be a system.

Some personal achievements include finding the Kenwood mdx-g7 for about $12 AUD in the junk section, and the Rilakkuma case for $1.50 AUD. 

Oh, and this is just my MD haul.

Don’t ask me how many Kirby Pinball Game Boy games we somehow ended up with...

Edit: my partner has instructed me to acknowledge that I apparently look like Jamiroquai in the last pic and that this is, somehow, very amusing..

Recently I once again had the chance to welcome the former sysop of Snobsoft during his yearly short visit from the US to Germany, here at my place in Hamburg. And he didn’t come empty‑handed - he brought along a gorgeous, like‑new C128D. But for me as a C128 newbie, all the BBS stuff turned out to be anything but simple. My RS232 interface for the modem initially refused to work with it and even caused the C128 to malfunction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpjJsQ70dGE

I’m also still looking for tips on QLink and how to get it running under C128 CP/M using a User‑Port modem.

If you want to jump straight to the good stuff in the video - the BBS segment starts at 15:20.

Enjoy!

Here’s the full timeline of the video:

00:00 - 01:05 --- The visitor from the USA has arrived and brought something with him

01:06 - 05:10 --- Unboxing the Commodore 128D

05:11 - 05:49 --- Preparing for the first boot of the computer

05:50 - 06:20 --- Fire up the Quattro Commodore after 40 years of beauty slumber

06:21 - 12:24 --- Dealing with this case-opening mechanism from hell and taming the fan

12:25 - 12:47 --- Silence

12:48 - 14:38 --- Troubleshooting the RS232-UP9600 modem adapter

14:39 - 15:11 --- Success

15:15 - --- Now the fun part begins - checking out the C128D

15:20 - 16:10 --- Loading Multi-Term 128 - floppy drive acting up a bit

16:15 - 18:39 --- Dial into the 300-baud BBS

18:40 - 20:21 --- Dial into the Snobsoft BBS

20:22 - 21:30 --- Trying out CP/M 3.0 with the original Commodore C128 disk

21:33 - 22:30 --- Trying to get QTerm 128 running for the Hayes 1670 modem

22:38 - --- How to get CP/M software onto a CP/M disk on the C128

22:40 - 23:15 --- Loading Big Blue Reader 128 - Version 4.10

23:16 - 24:10 --- Step by step to a working CP/M disk

24:11 - 24:23 --- Rant: the only key that works in this interface from hell to reach the copy menu - the up arrow

24:25 - 26:50 --- Copying process and testing whether everything arrived correctly on CP/M

26:51 - 27:58 --- Loading obscure C128 BBS software "128 Mailbox" - Mailbox = BBS in Germany

27:59 - 28:34 --- I know that guy! Greetings to Axel aka Gandalf

28:37 - 29:11 --- Something I’ve never done before in 40 Years...

29:15 - 29:49 --- Thank-you section

I have looked EVERYWHERE for this goddamn stylus. I need a diamond stylus replacement and I cant find any. I dont know if the pictures help at all

Got this from my uncles attic when he was cleaning up- is it worth keeping?